Fishing drives declines in fish parasite diversity and has variable effects on parasite abundance

Ecology

Volumn 95, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 1929-1946

  Wood, Chelsea L ^a,c   Sandin, Stuart A ^b   Zgliczynski, Brian ^b   Guerra, Ana Sofía ^a   Micheli, Fiorenza ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Anthropogenic Environmental Change; Biodiversity; Disease; Disturbance; Fishing; Parasites

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CORAL REEF; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; FISH; FISHING EFFORT; PARASITE INTENSITY; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; BIODIVERSITY; DISEASE; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; FISHING; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; POPULATION DECLINE; TROPHIC LEVEL;

LINE ISLANDS; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (EQUATORIAL);

ANTHOZOA; PISCES;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL PARASITOSIS; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; FISH; FISH DISEASE; FISHERY; ISLAND (GEOLOGICAL); PACIFIC OCEAN; PARASITOLOGY;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; FISH DISEASES; FISHERIES; FISHES; ISLANDS; PACIFIC OCEAN; PARASITIC DISEASES, ANIMAL;

EID: 84904281399     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/13-1270.1     Document Type: Article

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